Here’s What You Need to Know: The baseline Type 96 MBT weighed forty-one tons and boasted a maximum speed of around sixty-five kilometers per hour. Where the Type 96 markedly lagged behind its Soviet ...

The ZTZ-96 could be considered China’s first modern main battle tank. It grew out of a program to modernize the older ZTZ-88 tank, which was a stopgap design between the older Type 59s for the 1980s.

The Type-96B tank is expected to replace many of the PLA's old tanks. [Photo/China Daily] China's military is likely to deploy the Type-96B tank as the pillar of its tank fleet, replacing most of its ...

Japan has selected Patria's Armoured Modular Vehicle (pictured above) to replace the JGSDF's existing Type 96 APCs. (Patria) The Japanese Ministry of Defense (MoD) has selected Finnish company Patria ...

General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) has withdrawn from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force's (JGSDF's) Type 96 replacement programme, the Japan Ministry of Defense's (MoD's) Acquisition, Technology & ...